The Afghan Taliban attacked the border with Pakistan as the tension increased

Afghanistan’s Taliban regime has launched an attack on targets along the border with Pakistan, injuring several people in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.

Pakistan’s military said it had shot down four drones and warned that further provocation would be met with an “appropriate response”. The BBC could not independently confirm the attack.

The attack came after Pakistan launched its own airstrikes in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 28 civilians, the United Nations said.

After months of calm, tensions reigned in the region. After weeks of deadly fighting, the two countries agreed to a ceasefire in October.

Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of harboring terrorists who attack on its soil, which the Taliban rejects.

Kabul, in turn, accused Islamabad of carrying out unprovoked attacks that killed civilians. Pakistan says it only attacks militants.

An attack on civilian homes by Afghanistan and Pakistan on Sunday left 36 civilians dead and more than 160 injured.

He described the attack as a “cowardly act” and a “horrific act”.

Pakistan says it has carried out cross-border ground operations and airstrikes on militant hideouts in Paktia, Pakitika and Kunar districts of Afghanistan.

The country’s information minister, Atallah Tarar, said 29 militants were killed in the operation, which was a response to “recent terrorist attacks on innocent civilians”.

The BBC has not independently verified the figures from either side.

Border skirmishes and airstrikes in the area have killed dozens of people in recent months, officials from both countries said.

Several people were killed in the clashes between the two countries in February. In March, a Pakistan Hitting a drug rehab center He killed hundreds of people in Kabul.

Earlier in June Pakistan carried out deadly airstrikes He killed 26 militants. The Afghan Taliban government announced that 13 people, mostly children, were killed in the attack.